Category: Tips
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5 Environmental Portrait Tips Every Photographer Should Know
Do you want to tell a deeper story in your photos? As someone who shoots primarily landscapes, I sometimes get this voice in my head that my landscape feels empty. The answer could be to create an environmental portrait. That’s exactly what I did when photographing the Kuala Lumpur skyline against the old wooden houses…
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How to Get Royalty Free Music for Your Videos
Are you creating a slide show video with your photos and wanting some great music to go with it? You’ll want to make sure you’re not breaking any copyright by using songs illegally. Make sure you’re not doing anything illegal and use royalty free music. Using music you don’t have permission to use could get…
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How to Make a Video With Pictures and Music
Being a photographer, I sometimes get jealous of video. It’s not that I don’t love photography. The still image is one of the most powerful forms of art and communication. Video though has the potential to connect on a much deeper level. Not only does video allow you to “move” your pictures, you have the…
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Splice Video Editor App Review
If you’re looking for an amazing iPhone video editing app, look no further than Splice by GoPro. At first I was put off from downloading this app because it’s made by GoPro. It’s not that I don’t like the company, I just don’t own a GoPro (at least not yet), and I don’t think of…
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Dabbling Gets You NOWHERE: Chase Jarvis Advises Jason Teale
“I’m doing everything to get noticed, but it’s not working,” said photographer Jason Teale to creative guru Chase Jarvis. Then Jarvis gave Jason a brutally honest schooling on the reality of making it as a creative in the world today. In short, his advice was similar to what we’ve all heard before. Work hard. Be…
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My Lightroom Editing Workflow Recipe
One of the most common questions I get is about how to edit/process photos, especially in Adobe Lightroom. While some photographers try to get their image exactly how they want it right out of camera, a photo isn’t finished until it gets some digital darkroom magic. Here is my answer to a question I got…
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7 Tips to Find Your Voice in Photography
Is finding your voice or vision really that important? Photographers talk about it like some mystical elusive thing. Find it and the doors to success will fly wide open. And those who don’t risk being a forgotten follower. To add to the pressure, other photographers seem to have found their message with ease: Platon –…
